James C. Lester

Joseph F. Grafsgaard, Joseph B. Wiggins, Kristy Elizabeth Boyer, Eric N. Wiebe, James C. Lester: Modeling student programming with multimodal learning analytics (abstract only). SIGCSE 2013: 736

Sam Blisard, Ted Carmichael, Li Ding, Tim Finin, Wende Frost, Arthur C. Graesser, Mirsad Hadzikadic, Lalana Kagal, Geert-Jan M. Kruijff, Pat Langley, James C. Lester, Deborah L. McGuinness, Jack Mostow, Panagiotis Papadakis, Fiora Pirri, Rashmi Prasad, Svetlana Stoyanchev, Pradeep Varakantham: Reports of the AAAI 2011 Fall Symposia. AI Magazine 33(1) (2012)

Eun Y. Ha, Jonathan P. Rowe, Bradford W. Mott, James C. Lester: Goal Recognition with Markov Logic Networks for Player-Adaptive Games. AAAI 2012

Jennifer Sabourin, Bradford W. Mott, James C. Lester: Early Prediction of Student Self-Regulation Strategies by Combining Multiple Models. EDM 2012: 156-159

Joseph F. Grafsgaard, Kristy Elizabeth Boyer, Eric N. Wiebe, James C. Lester: Analyzing Posture and Affect in Task-Oriented Tutoring. FLAIRS Conference 2012

Christopher Michael Mitchell, Eunyoung Ha, Kristy Elizabeth Boyer, James C. Lester: Recognizing Effective and Student-Adaptive Tutor Moves in Task-Oriented Tutorial Dialogue. FLAIRS Conference 2012

Joseph F. Grafsgaard, Robert M. Fulton, Kristy Elizabeth Boyer, Eric N. Wiebe, James C. Lester: Multimodal analysis of the implicit affective channel in computer-mediated textual communication. ICMI 2012: 145-152

Joseph F. Grafsgaard, Kristy Elizabeth Boyer, James C. Lester: Toward a Machine Learning Framework for Understanding Affective Tutorial Interaction. ITS 2012: 52-58

Jennifer Sabourin, Lucy R. Shores, Bradford W. Mott, James C. Lester: Predicting Student Self-regulation Strategies in Game-Based Learning Environments. ITS 2012: 141-150

Lucy R. Shores, Kristin F. Hoffmann, John L. Nietfeld, James C. Lester: The Role of Sub-problems: Supporting Problem Solving in Narrative-Centered Learning Environments. ITS 2012: 464-469

Jennifer Sabourin, Jonathan P. Rowe, Bradford W. Mott, James C. Lester: Exploring Inquiry-Based Problem-Solving Strategies in Game-Based Learning Environments. ITS 2012: 470-475

Seung Y. Lee, Bradford W. Mott, James C. Lester: Real-Time Narrative-Centered Tutorial Planning for Story-Based Learning. ITS 2012: 476-481

Christopher Michael Mitchell, Kristy Elizabeth Boyer, James C. Lester: From Strangers to Partners: Examining Convergence within a Longitudinal Study of Task-Oriented Dialogue. SIGDIAL Conference 2012: 94-98

Eunyoung Ha, Joseph F. Grafsgaard, Christopher Michael Mitchell, Kristy Elizabeth Boyer, James C. Lester: Combining Verbal and Nonverbal Features to Overcome the "Information Gap" in Task-Oriented Dialogue. SIGDIAL Conference 2012: 247-256

Kristy Elizabeth Boyer, Robert Phillips, Amy Ingram, Eunyoung Ha, Michael D. Wallis, Mladen A. Vouk, James C. Lester: Investigating the Relationship Between Dialogue Structure and Tutoring Effectiveness: A Hidden Markov Modeling Approach. I. J. Artificial Intelligence in Education 21(1-2): 65-81 (2011)

Jonathan P. Rowe, Lucy R. Shores, Bradford W. Mott, James C. Lester: Integrating Learning, Problem Solving, and Engagement in Narrative-Centered Learning Environments. I. J. Artificial Intelligence in Education 21(1-2): 115-133 (2011)

James C. Lester: Affect, Learning, and Delight. ACII (1) 2011: 2

Joseph F. Grafsgaard, Kristy Elizabeth Boyer, James C. Lester: Predicting Facial Indicators of Confusion with Hidden Markov Models. ACII (1) 2011: 97-106

Jennifer Sabourin, Bradford W. Mott, James C. Lester: Modeling Learner Affect with Theoretically Grounded Dynamic Bayesian Networks. ACII (1) 2011: 286-295

Jennifer Sabourin, Bradford W. Mott, James C. Lester: Generalizing Models of Student Affect in Game-Based Learning Environments. ACII (2) 2011: 588-597

Kristy Elizabeth Boyer, Joseph F. Grafsgaard, Eunyoung Ha, Robert Phillips, James C. Lester: An Affect-Enriched Dialogue Act Classification Model for Task-Oriented Dialogue. ACL 2011: 1190-1199

Joseph F. Grafsgaard, Kristy Elizabeth Boyer, Robert Phillips, James C. Lester: Modeling Confusion: Facial Expression, Task, and Discourse in Task-Oriented Tutorial Dialogue. AIED 2011: 98-105

Seung Y. Lee, Bradford W. Mott, James C. Lester: Modeling Narrative-Centered Tutorial Decision Making in Guided Discovery Learning. AIED 2011: 163-170

Lucy R. Shores, Jonathan P. Rowe, James C. Lester: Early Prediction of Cognitive Tool Use in Narrative-Centered Learning Environments. AIED 2011: 320-327

Jennifer Sabourin, Jonathan P. Rowe, Bradford W. Mott, James C. Lester: When Off-Task is On-Task: The Affective Role of Off-Task Behavior in Narrative-Centered Learning Environments. AIED 2011: 534-536

Alok Baikadi, Julius Goth, Christopher Michael Mitchell, Eunyoung Ha, Bradford W. Mott, James C. Lester: Towards a Computational Model of Narrative Visualization. Intelligent Narrative Technologies 2011

Eunyoung Ha, Jonathan P. Rowe, Bradford W. Mott, James C. Lester: Goal Recognition with Markov Logic Networks for Player-Adaptive Games. AIIDE 2011

Seung Y. Lee, Bradford W. Mott, James C. Lester: Learning Director Agent Strategies: An Inductive Framework for Modeling Director Agents. Intelligent Narrative Technologies 2011

Kristy Elizabeth Boyer, Robert Phillips, Eunyoung Ha, Michael D. Wallis, Mladen A. Vouk, James C. Lester: Learning a Tutorial Dialogue Policy for Delayed Feedback. FLAIRS Conference 2011

Seung Y. Lee, Bradford W. Mott, James C. Lester: Director Agent Intervention Strategies for Interactive Narrative Environments. ICIDS 2011: 140-151

Kristy Elizabeth Boyer, Eunyoung Ha, Robert Phillips, James C. Lester: The Impact of Task-Oriented Feature Sets on HMMs for Dialogue Modeling. SIGDIAL Conference 2011: 49-58

Mei Si, David Thue, Elisabeth André, James C. Lester, Joshua Tanenbaum, Veronica Zammitto (Eds.): Interactive Storytelling - Fourth International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling, ICIDS 2011, Vancouver, Canada, November 28 - 1 December, 2011. Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 7069, Springer 2011, isbn 978-3-642-25288-4

Scott W. McQuiggan, Jennifer L. Robison, James C. Lester: Affective Transitions in Narrative-Centered Learning Environments. Educational Technology & Society 13(1): 40-53 (2010)

Jonathan P. Rowe, James C. Lester: Modeling User Knowledge with Dynamic Bayesian Networks in Interactive Narrative Environments. AIIDE 2010

Kristy Elizabeth Boyer, Robert Phillips, Eunyoung Ha, Michael D. Wallis, Mladen A. Vouk, James C. Lester: A Preliminary Investigation of Hierarchical Hidden Markov Models for Tutorial Planning. EDM 2010: 285-286

Jonathan P. Rowe, Lucy R. Shores, Bradford W. Mott, James C. Lester: Individual differences in gameplay and learning: a narrative-centered learning perspective. FDG 2010: 171-178

Kristy Elizabeth Boyer, Robert Phillips, Amy Ingram, Eunyoung Ha, Michael D. Wallis, Mladen A. Vouk, James C. Lester: Characterizing the Effectiveness of Tutorial Dialogue with Hidden Markov Models. Intelligent Tutoring Systems (1) 2010: 55-64

Seung Y. Lee, Bradford W. Mott, James C. Lester: Optimizing Story-Based Learning: An Investigation of Student Narrative Profiles. Intelligent Tutoring Systems (2) 2010: 155-165

Jonathan P. Rowe, Lucy R. Shores, Bradford W. Mott, James C. Lester: Integrating Learning and Engagement in Narrative-Centered Learning Environments. Intelligent Tutoring Systems (2) 2010: 166-177

Jennifer L. Robison, Scott W. McQuiggan, James C. Lester: Developing Empirically Based Student Personality Profiles for Affective Feedback Models. Intelligent Tutoring Systems (1) 2010: 285-295

Kristy Elizabeth Boyer, William Lahti, Robert Phillips, Michael D. Wallis, Mladen A. Vouk, James C. Lester: Principles of asking effective questions during student problem solving. SIGCSE 2010: 460-464

Eunyoung Ha, Alok Baikadi, Carlyle Licata, Bradford W. Mott, James C. Lester: Exploring the Effectiveness of Lexical Ontologies for Modeling Temporal Relations with Markov Logic. SIGDIAL Conference 2010: 75-78

Kristy Elizabeth Boyer, Eunyoung Ha, Robert Phillips, Michael D. Wallis, Mladen A. Vouk, James C. Lester: Dialogue Act Modeling in a Complex Task-Oriented Domain. SIGDIAL Conference 2010: 297-305

Scott W. McQuiggan, James C. Lester: Modelling affect expression and recognition in an interactive learning environment. IJLT 4(3/4): 216-233 (2009)

Jonathan P. Rowe, Scott W. McQuiggan, Jennifer L. Robison, Derrick R. Marcey, James C. Lester: STORYEVAL: An Empirical Evaluation Framework for Narrative Generation. AAAI Spring Symposium: Intelligent Narrative Technologies II 2009: 103-110

Jennifer L. Robison, Scott W. McQuiggan, James C. Lester: Modeling Task-Based vs. Affect-based Feedback Behavior in Pedagogical Agents: An Inductive Approach. AIED 2009: 25-32

Jonathan P. Rowe, Scott W. McQuiggan, Jennifer L. Robison, James C. Lester: Off-Task Behavior in Narrative-Centered Learning Environments. AIED 2009: 99-106

Kristy Elizabeth Boyer, Eunyoung Ha, Michael D. Wallis, Robert Phillips, Mladen A. Vouk, James C. Lester: Discovering Tutorial Dialogue Strategies with Hidden Markov Models. AIED 2009: 141-148

Jennifer L. Robison, Jonathan P. Rowe, Scott W. McQuiggan, James C. Lester: Predicting User Psychological Characteristics from Interactions with Empathetic Virtual Agents. IVA 2009: 330-336

Kristy Elizabeth Boyer, Robert Phillips, Eunyoung Ha, Michael D. Wallis, Mladen A. Vouk, James C. Lester: Modeling Dialogue Structure with Adjacency Pair Analysis and Hidden Markov Models. HLT-NAACL (Short Papers) 2009: 49-52

Kristy Elizabeth Boyer, Robert Phillips, Michael D. Wallis, Mladen A. Vouk, James C. Lester: The impact of instructor initiative on student learning: a tutoring study. SIGCSE 2009: 14-18

Scott W. McQuiggan, Bradford W. Mott, James C. Lester: Modeling self-efficacy in intelligent tutoring systems: An inductive approach. User Model. User-Adapt. Interact. 18(1-2): 81-123 (2008)

Scott W. McQuiggan, Jennifer L. Robison, Robert Phillips, James C. Lester: Modeling parallel and reactive empathy in virtual agents: an inductive approach. AAMAS (1) 2008: 167-174

Scott W. McQuiggan, Jonathan P. Rowe, James C. Lester: The effects of empathetic virtual characters on presence in narrative-centered learning environments. CHI 2008: 1511-1520

Kristy Elizabeth Boyer, August A. Dwight, R. Taylor Fondren, Mladen A. Vouk, James C. Lester: A development environment for distributed synchronous collaborative programming. ITiCSE 2008: 158-162

Kristy Elizabeth Boyer, Robert Phillips, Michael D. Wallis, Mladen A. Vouk, James C. Lester: Balancing Cognitive and Motivational Scaffolding in Tutorial Dialogue. Intelligent Tutoring Systems 2008: 239-249

Scott W. McQuiggan, Jennifer L. Robison, James C. Lester: Affective Transitions in Narrative-Centered Learning Environments. Intelligent Tutoring Systems 2008: 490-499

Scott W. McQuiggan, Julius Goth, Eunyoung Ha, Jonathan P. Rowe, James C. Lester: Student Note-Taking in Narrative-Centered Learning Environments: Individual Differences and Learning Effects. Intelligent Tutoring Systems 2008: 510-519

Scott W. McQuiggan, Jonathan P. Rowe, Sunyoung Lee, James C. Lester: Story-Based Learning: The Impact of Narrative on Learning Experiences and Outcomes. Intelligent Tutoring Systems 2008: 530-539

Jonathan P. Rowe, Eunyoung Ha, James C. Lester: Archetype-Driven Character Dialogue Generation for Interactive Narrative. IVA 2008: 45-58

Helmut Prendinger, James C. Lester, Mitsuru Ishizuka (Eds.): Intelligent Virtual Agents, 8th International Conference, IVA 2008, Tokyo, Japan, September 1-3, 2008. Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 5208, Springer 2008, isbn 978-3-540-85482-1

Scott W. McQuiggan, James C. Lester: Modeling and evaluating empathy in embodied companion agents. Int. J. Hum.-Comput. Stud. 65(4): 348-360 (2007)

Scott W. McQuiggan, Sunyoung Lee, James C. Lester: Early Prediction of Student Frustration. ACII 2007: 698-709

Kristy Elizabeth Boyer, Mladen A. Vouk, James C. Lester: The Influence of Learner Characteristics on Task-Oriented Tutorial Dialogue. AIED 2007: 365-372

Sunyoung Lee, Scott W. McQuiggan, James C. Lester: Inducing User Affect Recognition Models for Task-Oriented Environments. User Modeling 2007: 380-384

James C. Lester: Reflections on the KVL Tutoring Framework: Past, Present, and Future. I. J. Artificial Intelligence in Education 16(3): 271-276 (2006)

Bradford W. Mott, Sunyoung Lee, James C. Lester: Probabilistic Goal Recognition in Interactive Narrative Environments. AAAI 2006: 187-192

Scott W. McQuiggan, Sunyoung Lee, James C. Lester: Predicting User Physiological Response for Interactive Environments: An Inductive Approach. AIIDE 2006: 60-65

Scott W. McQuiggan, James C. Lester: Learning empathy: a data-driven framework for modeling empathetic companion agents. AAMAS 2006: 961-968

Bradford W. Mott, James C. Lester: U-director: a decision-theoretic narrative planning architecture for storytelling environments. AAMAS 2006: 977-984

Scott W. McQuiggan, James C. Lester: Diagnosing Self-efficacy in Intelligent Tutoring Systems: An Empirical Study. Intelligent Tutoring Systems 2006: 565-574

Bradford W. Mott, James C. Lester: Narrative-Centered Tutorial Planning for Inquiry-Based Learning Environments. Intelligent Tutoring Systems 2006: 675-684

Bradford W. Mott, James C. Lester, Karl Branting: The Role of Syntactic Analysis in Textual Case Retrieval. ICCBR Workshops 2005: 120-127

Karl Branting, James C. Lester, Bradford W. Mott: Dialogue Management for Conversational Case-Based Reasoning. ECCBR 2004: 77-90

Claude Frasson, Kaska Porayska-Pomsta, Cristina Conati, Guy Gouardères, W. Lewis Johnson, Helen Pain, Elisabeth André, Timothy W. Bickmore, Paul Brna, Isabel Fernández de Castro, Stefano A. Cerri, Cleide Jane Costa, James C. Lester, Christine L. Lisetti, Stacy Marsella, Jack Mostow, Roger Nkambou, Magalie Ochs, Ana Paiva, Fábio Paraguaçu, Natalie K. Person, Rosalind W. Picard, Candice Sidner, Angel de Vicente: Workshop on Social and Emotional Intelligence in Learning Environments. Intelligent Tutoring Systems 2004: 913

James C. Lester, Rosa Maria Vicari, Fábio Paraguaçu (Eds.): Intelligent Tutoring Systems, 7th International Conference, ITS 2004, Maceiò, Alagoas, Brazil, August 30 - September 3, 2004, Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 3220, Springer 2004, isbn 3-540-22948-5

Charles B. Callaway, James C. Lester: Narrative prose generation. Artif. Intell. 139(2): 213-252 (2002)

Charles B. Callaway, James C. Lester: Pronominalization in Generated Discourse and Dialogue. ACL 2002: 88-95

James C. Lester: Introduction to the Special Issue on Intelligent User Interfaces. AI Magazine 22(4): 13-14 (2001)

Charles B. Callaway, James C. Lester: Narrative Prose Generation. IJCAI 2001: 1241-1250

James C. Lester, Jennifer L. Voerman, Stuart G. Towns, Charles B. Callaway: Deictic Believability: Coordinated Gesture, Locomotion, and Speech in Lifelike Pedagogical Agents. Applied Artificial Intelligence 13(4-5): 383-414 (1999)

William H. Bares, James C. Lester: Intelligent multi-shot 3D visualization interfaces. Knowl.-Based Syst. 12(8): 403-412 (1999)

James C. Lester, Brian A. Stone, Gary D. Stelling: Lifelike Pedagogical Agents for Mixed-initiative Problem Solving in Constructivist Learning Environments. User Model. User-Adapt. Interact. 9(1-2): 1-44 (1999)

Clark Elliott, Jeff Rickel, James C. Lester: Lifelike Pedagogical Agents and Affective Computing: An Exploratory Synthesis. Artificial Intelligence Today 1999: 195-211

Brent H. Daniel, William H. Bares, Charles B. Callaway, James C. Lester: Student-Sensitive Multimodal Explanation Generation for 3D Learning Environments. AAAI/IAAI 1999: 114-120

James C. Lester, Luke S. Zettlemoyer, Joël P. Grégoire, William H. Bares: Explanatory Lifelike Evatars: Performing User-Centered Tasks in 3D Learning Environments. Agents 1999: 24-31

Karl Branting, Charles B. Callaway, Bradford W. Mott, James C. Lester: Integrating discourse and domain knowledge for document drafting. ICAIL 1999: 214-220

William H. Bares, James C. Lester: Intelligent Multi-Shot Visualization Interfaces for Dynamic 3D Worlds. IUI 1999: 119-126

Karl Branting, James C. Lester, Charles B. Callaway: Automating Judicial Document Drafting: A Discourse-Based Approach. Artif. Intell. Law 6(2-4): 111-149 (1998)

Stuart G. Towns, Charles B. Callaway, James C. Lester: Generating Coordinated Natural Language and 3D Animations for Complex Spatial Explanations. AAAI/IAAI 1998: 112-119

William H. Bares, Joël P. Grégoire, James C. Lester: Realtime Constraint-Based Cinematography for Complex Interactive 3D Worlds. AAAI/IAAI 1998: 1101-1106

William H. Bares, Luke S. Zettlemoyer, James C. Lester: Habitable 3D Learning Environments for Situated Learning. Intelligent Tutoring Systems 1998: 76-85

Stuart G. Towns, Patrick J. Fitzgerald, James C. Lester: Visual Emotive Communication in Lifelike Pedagogical Agents. Intelligent Tutoring Systems 1998: 474-483

Stuart G. Towns, Jennifer L. Voerman, Charles B. Callaway, James C. Lester: Coherent Gestures, Locomotion, and Speech in Life-like Pedagogical Agents. IUI 1998: 13-20

William H. Bares, Luke S. Zettlemoyer, Dennis W. Rodriguez, James C. Lester: Task-sensitive Cinematography Interfaces for Interactive 3D Learning Environments. IUI 1998: 81-88

James C. Lester, Bruce W. Porter: Developing and Empirically Evaluating Robust Explanation Generators: The KNIGHT Experiments. Computational Linguistics 23(1): 65-101 (1997)

William H. Bares, James C. Lester: Realtime Generation of Customized 3D Animated Explanations for Knowledge-Based Learning Environments. AAAI/IAAI 1997: 347-354

James C. Lester, Brian A. Stone: Increasing Believability in Animated Pedagogical Agents. Agents 1997: 16-21

James C. Lester, Sharolyn A. Converse, Susan H. Kahler, S. Todd Barlow, Brian A. Stone, Ravinder S. Bhogal: The Persona Effect: Affective Impact of Animated Pedagogical Agents. CHI 1997: 359-366

Karl Branting, James C. Lester, Charles B. Callaway: Automated Drafting of Self-Explaining Documents. ICAIL 1997: 72-81

Charles B. Callaway, James C. Lester: Dynamically Imroving Explanations: A Revision-Based Approach to Explanation Generation. IJCAI (2) 1997: 952-958

James C. Lester, Patrick J. Fitzgerald, Brian A. Stone: The Pedagogical Design Studio: Exploiting Artifact-Based Task Models for Constructivist Learning. IUI 1997: 155-162

James C. Lester, Bruce W. Porter: Scaling Up Explanation Generation: Large-Scale Knowledge Bases and Empirical Studies. AAAI/IAAI, Vol. 1 1996: 416-423

Brian A. Stone, James C. Lester: Dynamically Sequencing an Animated Pedagogical Agent. AAAI/IAAI, Vol. 1 1996: 424-431

Karl Branting, James C. Lester: Justification Structures for Document Reuse. EWCBR 1996: 76-90

James C. Lester, Brian A. Stone, Michael A. O'Leary, Robert B. Stevenson: Focusing Problem Solving in Design-Centered Learning Environments. Intelligent Tutoring Systems 1996: 475-483